Mediatek says Helio X20 does not overheat


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After reports that Lenovo, HTC and Xiaomi had dropped the idea of using the Helio X20 in phones because of overheating problems, Mediatek have spoken back.

If rumours of Mediatek’s Helio X20 overheating caused a case of deja vu for you yesterday, then prepare  to get hit with another deja vu moment.

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Just as Qualcomm did before them, Mediatek have also taken to social media in an attempt to quash rumours and state that there is not overheating issues with their 10 core processor.

We can’t be sure if this is true, and if Mediatek are just hoping they can fix overheating problems before the chipset launches in phones later this month.

The Mediatek Helio X20 is a 10 core chipset with a  tri-cluster design allowing the SoC to change gears depending on the tasks its asked to perform.

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42 Comments

  1. Nolan
    February 3, 2016

    I say BullShit. 🙂

    • balcobomber25
      February 3, 2016

      Usually everything you say is BullShit ;).

  2. fido futte
    February 3, 2016

    Anyone know if the snapdragon also is overheating ? Qualcomm SoC normally also haveing this overheat problem

    • MattD
      February 3, 2016

      I wouldn’t say “normally”: the sd801 and 805 are some of the best socs ever made even today, and they do not “over” heat, they just heat up like a normal chip would do. The problem came this year, on the 64bit generation, due to the fact they were forced to give up on their usual architecture, but now they have a new architecture so it should be less problematic. But, so far, we know nothing about how 2016 chips but some antutu scores, so we must wait and see real life performance

    • balcobomber25
      February 3, 2016

      The 810 and 615 both had issues with overheating but Qualcomm doesn’t exactly have a history with it. High performance chips will heat up with usage, but that is not the same as we are talking about here.

  3. Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
    February 3, 2016

    Yeah sure, the guys @Qualcomm were claiming the same. 😉

  4. Steven Fox
    February 3, 2016

    It does say that the chip throttle’s down to using the A53 cores rather than the A72 ones, and basically that means that the A72’s are there for benchmarks.
    Take it as you will, but real usage will show. At least we can be sure that the Mali 880MP4 will offer plenty of gaming performance(somewhere around 50% over the X10), so I`m fine with that.

    • Joel Adames
      February 3, 2016

      Count me in
      A72s for Xtreme gaming parts+Bragging rights and cheaper option than Qualcomms offerings

      • Yeti hand
        February 3, 2016

        bragging rights… XD XD
        You sir made my day, thank you very much

        • Joel Adames
          February 3, 2016

          I’m still amazed by how the people of Apple get their A9 with just 2 cores but a lot of GPU power to excel over the new sd820… Hope mediatek will one day wake up and go over everything that needs the GPU. IMAGINE A NICE MTK X12 WITH A SIX CORE GPU…
          JUST DAY DREAMING HERE.

          • realjjj
            February 4, 2016

            SD820 has a faster GPU than the iphone , at least short term perf.How much it throttles and what’s the sustained perf, remains to be seen.

        • Joel Adames
          February 3, 2016

          Hahaha ha glad to hear that

  5. MattD
    February 3, 2016

    Meh… A couple of months and we’ll see: Qualcomm used to say 810 didn’t overheat even when there were plenty of evidence, obviously there’s no wonder mediatek saying something like that before the chip’s out

  6. JNG_RULZ
    February 3, 2016

    O RLY?….Hmph! Well We just wait and see…Hopefully they are not dishonest as qualcomm!

    So i would keep my finger cross and wait!

  7. Guest
    February 3, 2016

    I say BullShit. 🙂

    • balcobomber25
      February 3, 2016

      Usually everything you say is BullShit ;).

  8. fido futte
    February 3, 2016

    Anyone know if the snapdragon also is overheating ? Qualcomm SoC normally also haveing this overheat problem

    • MattD
      February 3, 2016

      I wouldn’t say “normally”: the sd801 and 805 are some of the best socs ever made even today, and they do not “over” heat, they just heat up like a normal chip would do. The problem came this year, on the 64bit generation, due to the fact they were forced to give up on their usual architecture, but now they have a new architecture so it should be less problematic. But, so far, we know nothing about how 2016 chips but some antutu scores, so we must wait and see real life performance

    • balcobomber25
      February 3, 2016

      The 810 and 615 both had issues with overheating but Qualcomm doesn’t exactly have a history with it. High performance chips will heat up with usage, but that is not the same as we are talking about here.

  9. Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
    February 3, 2016

    Yeah sure, the guys @Qualcomm were claiming the same. 😉

  10. Joel Adames
    February 3, 2016

    Well as other pointed out (‘cuz it was not mentioned in the article itself) they claim something I assumed yesterday. When the 2 big guys should not go higher then they take a break to cool off while the other cores take the punch.

  11. Steven Fox
    February 3, 2016

    It does say that the chip throttle’s down to using the A53 cores rather than the A72 ones, and basically that means that the A72’s are there for benchmarks.
    Take it as you will, but real usage will show. At least we can be sure that the Mali 880MP4 will offer plenty of gaming performance(somewhere around 50% over the X10), so I`m fine with that.

    • Joel Adames
      February 3, 2016

      Count me in
      A72s for Xtreme gaming parts+Bragging rights and cheaper option than Qualcomms offerings

    • Yeti hand
      February 3, 2016

      bragging rights… XD XD
      You sir made my day, thank you very much

    • Joel Adames
      February 3, 2016

      I’m still amazed by how the people of Apple get their A9 with just 2 cores but a lot of GPU power to excel over the new sd820… Hope mediatek will one day wake up and go over everything that needs the GPU. IMAGINE A NICE MTK X12 WITH A SIX CORE GPU…
      JUST DAY DREAMING HERE.

    • Joel Adames
      February 4, 2016

      Hahaha ha glad to hear that

    • realjjj
      February 4, 2016

      SD820 has a faster GPU than the iphone , at least short term perf.How much it throttles and what’s the sustained perf, remains to be seen.

  12. balcobomber25
    February 3, 2016

    Until we get actual devices in our hands this is all “he said/she said”. MWC is only a few weeks away and then we will find out who is and isn’t launching X20 phones, what problems they have or don’t have and the same with the 820.

  13. MattD
    February 3, 2016

    Meh… A couple of months and we’ll see: Qualcomm used to say 810 didn’t overheat even when there were plenty of evidence, obviously there’s no wonder mediatek saying something like that before the chip’s out

  14. Guest
    February 3, 2016

    O RLY?….Hmph! Well We just wait and see…Hopefully they are not dishonest as qualcomm!

    So i would keep my finger cross and wait!

  15. Joel Adames
    February 3, 2016

    Well as other pointed out (‘cuz it was not mentioned in the article itself) they claim something I assumed yesterday. When the 2 big guys should not go higher then they take a break to cool off while the other cores take the punch.

  16. balcobomber25
    February 3, 2016

    Until we get actual devices in our hands this is all “he said/she said”. MWC is only a few weeks away and then we will find out who is and isn’t launching X20 phones, what problems they have or don’t have and the same with the 820.

  17. dutchgio
    February 3, 2016

    Ofcourse, this is the standard response. It would be a bummer if they’d say: yes, don’t buy our X20, it has overheating issues

  18. dutchgio
    February 3, 2016

    Ofcourse, this is the standard response. It would be a bummer if they’d say: yes, don’t buy our X20, it has overheating issues

  19. Owsley_66
    February 3, 2016

    Just for the record, I am not a heavy user, but my Nexus 6P does not overheat. It gets warm when I use the GPS but then my Be Pro got much warmer when using GPS.

    • balcobomber25
      February 4, 2016

      You won’t notice it without heavy use. But phones released in the second half of last year made changes to their designs to deal with the overheating so the users wouldn’t notice it as much.

  20. Owsley_66
    February 4, 2016

    Just for the record, I am not a heavy user, but my Nexus 6P does not overheat. It gets warm when I use the GPS but then my Be Pro got much warmer when using GPS.

    • balcobomber25
      February 4, 2016

      You won’t notice it without heavy use. But phones released in the second half of last year made changes to their designs to deal with the overheating so the users wouldn’t notice it as much.

  21. trapchan
    February 4, 2016

    It won’t overheat, but it only slow the clock down, throttle, turn some cores off, and rendering the phone become unusable.

  22. trapchan
    February 4, 2016

    It won’t overheat, but it only slow the clock down, throttle, turn some cores off, and rendering the phone become unusable.